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Back from the Brink	comment	In any video game where the player's country/faction is involved in a conflict before the game starts, the game will begin with the enemy about to deliver a deathblow to the allies — they're about to kill off the last regiment, destroy the last base, or capture the last territory. Then the player will immediately take control and suddenly It's Up to You to fight Back from the Brink, completely reversing the course of the war up until that point. Oddly enough, despite the fact that the enemy has the entire country/continent/planet/galaxy under his control except for the tiny corner where the game begins, the strike force that the enemy sends to finish you off in the first mission will always be almost pathetically weak, easily defeated by the player. Used in nearly all genres of video game, but especially prevalent in Real-Time Strategy and Turn-Based Strategy. Compare Late to the Tragedy, except that the main character has been around for the whole time, just not under the player's control. Related to Always Close, but with an entire war. If you tilt your head and squint just right, this trope appears to be connected to Conservation of Ninjutsu: The less territory a side has, the more difficult they are to defeat. This may be a sort-of Truth in Television—barring things like nukes, a side with less territory but roughly the same personnel and materiel will have more people and machines protecting an area of a given size; supply convoys and so on won't have as far to go and thereby remain exposed less often; etc. See also Near-Villain Victory.
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Back from the Brink / int_10ddd3d5	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: By the time Link starts fighting back the Twilight, it's taken over all of Hyrule apart from Link's hometown, Ordon Village. In fact, they would have gotten that area too had Link not come back at just the right time to kill off the Twilight Beasts.
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Back from the Brink / int_13564d4	comment	In Dark Wizard the player, as the latest successor to King Armer VIII, starts with the tiniest, most-defeated remnant of the Holy Army (three unnamed units) that's been squirreled away in the far-off wastelands of Quentin. While a professional army made up of the much-stronger equipment-wearing, magic-using units is impossibly expensive for your tiny starting tax base, you can still fight using a never-ending stream of summoned Mon, just like all of your opponents.
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Back from the Brink / int_169f043b	comment	StarCraft Episodes IV and VI start that way. And, of course, some individual missions.
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Back from the Brink / int_16c83de8	comment	Similarily, in Star Fox 64 the Star Fox team is only then called for help when Corneria already is under direct attack, with all oher planets in the Lylat system either conquered or fighting losing battles.
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Back from the Brink / int_16d191f7	comment	Homefront feels like this. North Korea has seized practically all of the United States, and you play as a recruit of a small resistance faction that eventually tries to meet up with the remains of the US military and start turning the war against North Korea, even though they have all but won already.
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Back from the Brink / int_17bfcf60	comment	Averted in Homeworld, where the grand evil empire has already won and the forces you fight in the first few missions are either petty space pirates or the fringe fleets of said empire who just happened to be in the area. In the briefings of some of the middle missions your intelligence officer even makes it rather obvious that your chosen flight route is designed to avoid having to deal with the bulk of enemy forces.
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Back from the Brink / int_1a567c4a	comment	This is basicaly the premise of AI War: Fleet Command. The AIs have already annihilated the humans and other species in the galaxy, and you're the last bastion. The trope is being subverted, though: You have a chance at all because you are considered irrelevant - the AIs are fighting a greater foe somewhere else. If you do what you'd do in every other strategy game - take back systems one by one to build up power - you will be deemed a threat and eliminated by an unstoppable wave of ships that swat your fleets aside and destroy your stations. Instead, you have to obfuscate your progress by only taking over systems that are actually valuable and then orchestrate a lightning strike on both enemy home stations almost simultaneously. In a game of 80 planets, good players will only ever conquer 20 or so.
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Back from the Brink / int_20336460	comment	The Jagged Alliance series. Being that your troops are a band of mercenaries - essentially a new infusion of ace personnel into a war presumably already won - the enemies start out easy because they're routine patrols that get surprised by people who can actually shoot them. In Jagged Alliance 2 specifically, Queen Deidranna is a vain, cruel, and egotistical dictator who nevertheless keeps a goodly portion of her guard around the things that actually do matter - her gold mines, her towns filled with either smarmy sycophants or cowering subjects, and her SAM sites. The first secures the economy and allows her to maintain her expensive and well-equipped army, the second secures her status as ruler and dissuades open rebellion, and the third forces any would-be saviors to hoof it unless they can destroy or take over the sites.
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Back from the Brink / int_2192aeb3	comment	In the Fire Emblem series, it's very common for the player's country to be invaded and conquered in the opening act of the game, and the player has to then take on the evil empire with nothing but a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits and a couple of metal sticks to their name. In the second half of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, the player takes control of Seliph and a ragtag band of rebels, starting in an obscure corner of an entire continent that the villain took over during the first half of the game. Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. The player starts with the control of Daein's Dawn Brigade, and in the only run the country really is restored; however, in Part III, when you play part their side part (as pawn to The Empire) their opponents', they're steadfastly losing, and their Last Stand ends as a dramatic defeat. It's also averted with the enemy country, Crimea; Crimea was the attacker in the conflict with The Empire, and was not losing in any sense of the word. It's played straight if you think of Crimea's queen, though, who in Part II was under fierce criticism and had faced a rebellion in her own country, and whose position in Part III is much more established. In Part II of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, while the Azure Moon, Verdant Wind, and Silver Snow routes play this trope straight, Crimson Flower puts a unique spin on it. This time, the shoe is on the other foot; you're the empire out to crush the last remnants of the old order so you can usher in a new age of meritocracy and create a world where anyone can rise to the top.
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Back from the Brink / int_21e321da	comment	In Dragon Quest VII, after the last battle between Good and Evil, most of the world was sealed away by the Demon Lord. Ultimately, it deteriorated to the point where the only scrap of land left is a small island. On the bright side, there's no monsters on land...! Oh, and there's a set of Ancient Ruins where the heroes can eventually Set Right What Once Went Wrong and restore the world bit by bit.
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Back from the Brink / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Although things have calmed down in the century since the Kingdom of Hyrule was destroyed, Calamity Ganon is starting to break free of its seal; not only could it destroy the world on its own if free, its evil influence is also causing the Divine Beasts to act up and wreak havoc on the four corners of the land. Link awakens in the Shrine of Resurrection just in time to free the Divine Beasts of that evil influence and ultimately confront Calamity Ganon itself.
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Back from the Brink / int_24e813c	comment	Downplayed in Starlancer. The player's faction starts at the brink, and seems to be winning back a little bit as it goes along, but the enemy is vastly superior. Ultimately, it turns into an attempt to load up a series of colony ships and abandon the Solar system. All of it, in fact, is the background details described in the intro to Freelancer.
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Back from the Brink / int_289f3039	comment	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: In World of Light, Galeem does a World-Wrecking Wave, which Kirby is only able to survive by pushing his Warp Star to its absolute limit, leaving him the only one able to fight back.
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Back from the Brink / int_353b7af3	comment	In Star Trek: Discovery, the arrival of the USS Discovery in the 32nd Century allows the Federation to discover the cause of The Burn and start rebuilding their group. Ending the threat of the Dark Matter Anomaly the next year further helps in the recovering.
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Back from the Brink / int_3b650461	comment	In Halcyon 6, the New Terran Federation is all but wiped out at the start of the game by a new powerful interdimensional enemy. In a You Are in Command Now manner, the Non-Entity General has been left in charge of the titular Precursor Space Station. It's up to you to upgrade the station, recruit officers, collect resources, rebuild the fleet, locate any surviving colonies and mines, and fight off any power that wants the station for themselves (they were formerly kept in check by the Federation fleet). And, of course, you have to eventually take the fight to the unknown aggressors.
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Back from the Brink / int_3c69e536	comment	A villainous example in Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and its direct sequel Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022). Dr. Robotnik ends the first film stranded on an uninhabited Mushroom Planet with no resources, supplies, or plan of escape, but confident he'll be home by Christmas. He makes good on his boast in the sequel, beginning by taking advantage of some mercenaries to open a portal back to Earth and become a threat to Sonic once again.
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Back from the Brink / int_3cf15492	comment	Some MechWarrior games start like this. Mechwarrior 4 starts with the anti-Steiner resistance reduced to a single Drop Ship group at a moon base, preparing to take on a planet. About a quarter of the way into Black Knight, the player's mercenaries are reduced to barely a lance, where all the rest of their elite forces have been wiped out as the player starts the mission in medias res and must avoid annihilation while getting revenge.
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Back from the Brink / int_41a279b3	comment	In Star Fox: Assault, the Cornerian fleet is about to be decimated by Andrew's forces before the Great Fox suddenly warps in, whereupon Star Fox basically wipes out most of Andrew's army in a matter of minutes. Later on, the Aparoids attack Corneria itself and even nearly assimilate General Pepper in Star Fox's absence. As soon as they arrive to take care of business, the crisis is quickly averted.
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Back from the Brink / int_463cfe3a	comment	The Star Fox series is quite fond of this: The original starts with launching the eponymous team up against Andross' forces attacking Corneria, then sends them off to Venom, liberating planets and blowing up armadas as they go. Similarily, in Star Fox 64 the Star Fox team is only then called for help when Corneria already is under direct attack, with all oher planets in the Lylat system either conquered or fighting losing battles. In Star Fox: Assault, the Cornerian fleet is about to be decimated by Andrew's forces before the Great Fox suddenly warps in, whereupon Star Fox basically wipes out most of Andrew's army in a matter of minutes. Later on, the Aparoids attack Corneria itself and even nearly assimilate General Pepper in Star Fox's absence. As soon as they arrive to take care of business, the crisis is quickly averted.
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Back from the Brink / int_47254823	comment	In The Ninja Warriors Again, the forces of Banglar the Tyrant have beaten La Résistance all the way to their very doorstep. That's exactly when the titular ninja warrior androids are dispatched to take down Banglar's forces.
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Back from the Brink / int_48987d73	comment	In Infamous, Infamous 2 and inFAMOUS: Second Son, the protagonist starts with a completely taken over city and gradually clears them out sector-by-sector. Zig-Zagged with the first game: the cause of the takeover is a direct cause of the protagonist and the player pressing Start, and is made worse by taking out the power in the one island that was better off than the other three.
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Back from the Brink / int_49a84be6	comment	Final Fantasy III does this a lot, first with saving the last crystal from the forces of darkness and then bringing back stability to the world.
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Back from the Brink / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV The Stormblood expansion is all about the Scions of the Seventh Dawn turning two entire military campaigns around into a victory against the Empire. Both Ala Mhigo and Doma have been conquered by the Garlean Empire, and each nation's respective La Résistance is just about ready to give up before Eorzea's hand is forced. The Warrior of Light being on the field turns out to be the biggest thing that pulls the rebels through. Any instance where you're justified in using a healing job's third-level Limit Break. Healer LBs provide substantial HP recovery to the entire party, with the LB3 also reviving any KO'd allies. Many a party has been nearly about to be KO'd, only for the third bar of the Limit Gauge to fill up and let the healer bring the entire party back up to where they started from (give or take anyone who already had Weakened or Brink of Death status from a prior raising). Some Alliance Raids - which require three separate parties working together - can go even further, as a near-wipe can be turned around by healers using LB3 and then raising other parties' healers so they can use their own LB3
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Back from the Brink / int_49aa2aa4	comment	This trope is a staple in the Ace Combat series, present in almost every game. Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies, Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War and Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception start with the player defending the allies' last remaining airbase from enemy attack. During the opening cutscene, Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War kills off every pilot on the base except for the player, his squadron and their commander. Played with by Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, where the first mission is a surprise attack by the enemy which ends with allied forces being driven from the area and abandoning their capital to enemy occupation, so it's not until the second mission that you're defending your last remaining airbase from enemy attack. The subtitle of the second mission is, in fact, "On the Brink".
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Back from the Brink / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King basically has the good side start with a few cities where the player (almost singlehandedly) takes back huge sections of regions and fights and kills thousands of overratedly-overpowered undead, all the way to the Lich King's throne. Furthermore, when you fight and get the Lich King down far enough in health, he instantly kills your entire raid, at which point the LK's ghost father conveniently comes out of nowhere, resurrects everyone, and then stunlocks the Lich King long enough for your raid to leave, have tea and biscuits, and finish him off.
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Back from the Brink / int_4a6ef2c5	comment	Space Battleship Yamato starts off this way, with the Earth a radioactive wasteland, what's left of its population living underground, and its space defenses destroyed.
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Back from the Brink / int_4bb90246	comment	In Sengoku Rance, when Rance becomes the secret ruler and takes control over the once powerful Oda Family, it has been reduced to only one territory. Then after Rance starts his Attack! Attack! Attack! tactic he somehow manages to rapidly conquer the other factions.
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Back from the Brink / int_4bea6084	comment	Restoring failing empires in Europa Universalis IV at the time where the game starts is a common Self-Imposed Challenge. Some of them, such as restoring the Byzantine or the Hindustani Empire, are officially recognized with a Steam achievement.
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Back from the Brink / int_4fb21def	comment	Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies, Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War and Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception start with the player defending the allies' last remaining airbase from enemy attack.
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Back from the Brink / int_506e266b	comment	This trope is basically the achievement "Only A True Master..." for Injustice 2, where a player beats another online despite a 10%/90% health difference.
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Back from the Brink / int_62aa95a6	comment	The Lost Fleet starts with The Alliance fleet being caught into a Syndic ambush deep in Syndic space and sustaining heavy losses. The entire senior command staff is executed when attempting negotiations. The recently-awakened from Human Popsicle state Captain Geary is given command of the fleet. Geary proceeds to escape from the Syndic home system and take a roundabout way to return to Alliance space, while constantly fighting Syndic forces trying to stop him. By the end of the main series, he has not only returned the fleet to the Alliance space but also destroyed so many Syndic ships that it more than makes up for any ships the Alliance lost. Additionally, he then convinces the Alliance leadership to let him lead another strike at the Syndic home system in order to force an end to the 100-year war.
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Back from the Brink / int_64776522	comment	Yggdra Union begins with the nation of Fantasinia all but conquered by an invading empire, with the army in ruins, the capital captured and the royal family killed, with the exception of a surviving princess being hunted down. Then she meets a noble thief and a surviving knight...
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Back from the Brink / int_67a9bbe6	comment	Zero Wing opens with CATS capturing all your base, setting up you the bomb, and asking how you gentlemen are. You must move ZIG for great justice and prove you have chance to survive make your time.
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Back from the Brink / int_67ed82fa	comment	In both The Godfather games, despite whatever renown the Corleone might have had in backstory, by the start they have been reduced to no Fronts at all.
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Back from the Brink / int_68c8e9ad	comment	Standard in Super Robot Wars is to have the player open a chapter with just a few units against an enemy's forward force. Defeat the weak scouting party, and the real army shows up. This is about the time that the player's mother ship makes it's appearance, along with the force you've already collected. This is taken to the max in Super Robot Wars Destiny where it starts out in a Crapsack World but through the uniting of heroic forces (some of them unexpected), turn things around and end things on a far better note.
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Back from the Brink / int_6b671725	comment	Played with by Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, where the first mission is a surprise attack by the enemy which ends with allied forces being driven from the area and abandoning their capital to enemy occupation, so it's not until the second mission that you're defending your last remaining airbase from enemy attack. The subtitle of the second mission is, in fact, "On the Brink".
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Back from the Brink / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4: The Commonwealth Minutemen, once a potent militia that had a presence throughout the Commonwealth, are down to a single soldier by the time the Sole Survivor encounters them in Concord. If the player chooses to progress through the Minutemen quest line, they can restore it to the power that it once was, to the point where it can defeat both the Institute and the East Coast Brotherhood of Steel in battle.
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Back from the Brink / int_6f48e446	comment	Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars: The first GDI missions (excluding the intro).
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Back from the Brink / int_6fce1296	comment	Nectaris takes place on the moon. Before the opening mission, the entire moon has been taken over and, in the opening mission, the player commands the last survivors of the Union army (little of this is mentioned in game though; mainly, it's All There in the Manual).
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Back from the Brink / int_72a1ac51	comment	In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Carl Johnson comes back home after his mother is killed, and finds the Grove Street Families being in a very weak position. CJ then gets to strengthening the gang by taking over Ballas areas. You do this again a long time after the Wham Episode called "The Green Sabre" where the Ballas defeat the Grove Street Families, starting with Grove Street which has become a Ballas stronghold.
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Back from the Brink / int_7356d631	comment	The Transformers: Dark Cybertron: The Simanzi Battle/Massacre was one for the Autobots, Megatron had pushed his forces, conquered most of the planet and halved the population. It rained corrosives, and the skies were the color of the Decepticon emblem. How the Autobot's recovered has not been stated.
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Back from the Brink / int_7378e633	comment	Averted in Rise of Legends, in which Miana is simply one of several dozen Vinci city-states and your fight is primarily a war of conquest. Played straight in the Alin campaign, however, where the Alin Kingdom has been pushed back to the city of Azar Harif by the Dark Alin by the time Giacomo gets there.
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Back from the Brink / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: The previous legendary hero was slain long ago, Ganon's forces have ravaged Hyrule, the Triforce is shattered, and all that remains of the kingdom are a few random old people hiding in caves. And then Link appears to revert gradually the situation and eventually defeat Ganon and his army. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: By the time you reach the first dungeon, the king has been killed, the majority of Hyrule's soldiers have been brainwashed to serve his murderer, and the villain is preparing to sacrifice Zelda as the final maiden to break the seal on the Dark World so its forces can invade Hyrule, your uncle already heavily injured trying to stop them. And then Link gets involved. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: By the time Link awakens in the future era, five of the six temples have succumbed under Ganondorf's influence, outmatching the Sages who attempted to protect them, and as a result all parts of Hyrule have remained in a dire state in one way or another. The only temple that is left intact from the Gerudo king's influence (and therefore has its Sage safe) is the Temple of Time (even then, the Market is still overrun by ReDeads and the nearby Lon Lon Ranch is now under Ingo's control), whose sage (Rauru) entrusts Link the mission to restore Hyrule to its former glory and eventually confront his deadliest enemy. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: By the time Link starts fighting back the Twilight, it's taken over all of Hyrule apart from Link's hometown, Ordon Village. In fact, they would have gotten that area too had Link not come back at just the right time to kill off the Twilight Beasts. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Although things have calmed down in the century since the Kingdom of Hyrule was destroyed, Calamity Ganon is starting to break free of its seal; not only could it destroy the world on its own if free, its evil influence is also causing the Divine Beasts to act up and wreak havoc on the four corners of the land. Link awakens in the Shrine of Resurrection just in time to free the Divine Beasts of that evil influence and ultimately confront Calamity Ganon itself.
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Back from the Brink / int_755997ac	comment	Doom: The first Doom has the protagonist fighting off a demonic invasion after all his comrades on the Phobos base are wiped out. Doom II: Hell on Earth has the combined forces of humanity making one last counter-offensive to retake the Starport and evacuate Earth. Every last one of them is annihilated besides the protagonist, who must then retake the Starport himself and save the day. Doom³ puts you in the shoes of a marine who is transferred to Mars for reasons unknown. Everybody on Mars is quickly wiped out in an ensuing demonic invasion (much like the first game) besides a handful of marine teams (Who quickly get taken out in a cutscene) and the other 3 main characters. The player is basically responsible for stopping the invasion.
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Back from the Brink / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: In the original Halo: Combat Evolved, the game begins with your ship fleeing from a Covenant armada that just wiped out an entire human fleet and the planet it was protecting... then you go on to annihilate most of that fleet (okay, the Flood helped, too). It's not mentioned much in-game, but it's All There in the Manual. Or rather, All There in Halo: The Fall of Reach anyway. Then it's subverted when the Covies go on to annihilate most of Earth's population between Halo 2 and Halo 3 anyways, as they had many more fleets to spare. Justified in Halo 3; humanity's in the worst shape it's ever been, but they're able to win because the Covenant has already fallen into civil war, with one side allying with the humans and providing them vital support.
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Back from the Brink / int_7668653b	comment	Mass Effect 3 starts off with the Reapers' invasion of Earth, crushing all resistance in their path. Commander Shepard is forced to flee the planet in order to gather allies and resources to take back Earth. Is ultimately an inverted example: the Reapers can only be stalled, and by the end of the game they go from occupying a few systems to turning the entire map red.
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Back from the Brink / int_78857b99	comment	In The Swarm of War, James/Overmind (formerly the leader of the biggest Zerg Brood on Aiur) arrives in the W40K universe with only eight Overlords and some escorts from his force. Three of the Overlords are lost to local Giant Flyers, so he makes do with just over twenty land units and a lot of dead meat from the crashed Overlords. Oh, and a large Khaydarin Crystal from a Protoss Pylon.
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Back from the Brink / int_79a57c7e	comment	Black & White 2 begins when the player character deity wakes from a long hibernation to find their civilization on the brink of destruction by the Absolute Xenophobe Aztecs, forcing them to evacuate a remnant to an abandoned village on a remote island to start over.
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Back from the Brink / int_7bff7264	type	Back from the Brink
Back from the Brink / int_7bff7264	comment	In the original Halo: Combat Evolved, the game begins with your ship fleeing from a Covenant armada that just wiped out an entire human fleet and the planet it was protecting... then you go on to annihilate most of that fleet (okay, the Flood helped, too). It's not mentioned much in-game, but it's All There in the Manual. Or rather, All There in Halo: The Fall of Reach anyway. Then it's subverted when the Covies go on to annihilate most of Earth's population between Halo 2 and Halo 3 anyways, as they had many more fleets to spare.
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Back from the Brink / int_7f707367	comment	The Freespace series has something as rare for a video game as this happening (mostly) off-screen — at the end of the first game, the outro makes clear that the expectation is that the Shivans will still win, despite the destruction of the Lucifer superdestroyer (the main victory lies in the subspace nodes to Sol being destabilized, cutting Earth off from the Shivans). Cue the expansion pack, and it turns out that despite the loss of contact with Earth the Terran-Vasudan alliance is driving the Shivan forces out of their space with surprising speed and ease.
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Back from the Brink / int_7fc78282	comment	The predicament of Gondor in The Lord of the Rings - formerly a continent-spanning Empire, which even in its own beginnings was a remnant rump of the even mighter but now long-destroyed Numenor. By the time of The War of the Ring, Gondor is shrunken to a relatively small corner of Middle-Earth: still powerful, but in a very much diminished sort of way. Its history parellels that of Rome: divided into two parts for administrative convenience, the northern Empire (Arnor) is no more and the southern Empire (Gondor) is reduced to a progressively smaller area as parts are regularly chewed off by insurgent younger kingdoms. It is reliant on alliances with the more friendly new powers (Rohan) and, like the Byzantine Empire, is threatened with invasions from the East. As with the final death of Byzantium in 1453 after a Turkish attack from the East, the siege of Minas Tirith and the battle of the Pellenor Fields echoes the death of Constantinople in 1453. But a last relic of dead Arnor rises to lead the battle and pull Gondor back from the brink of its ruin. And a new Gondor rises.
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Back from the Brink / int_817ec44f	comment	Captain N: The Game Master opens on Princess Lana's castle being sieged - she's holed up by an entire army with only three of her trusted lieutenants left, and all hope seems lost. Until the Power Glove summons the titular hero...
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Back from the Brink / int_83d81bd4	comment	During the opening cutscene, Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War kills off every pilot on the base except for the player, his squadron and their commander.
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Back from the Brink / int_86814e56	comment	In Final Fantasy VI: The Returners have a stronghold of sorts in the mountains east of Figaro—however, it's about the time that you start the game that the Empire starts occupying cities to build their own power, but also to try and stamp out the Returners. This is a slight aversion of the trope, as your objective as the player is not to win back control of the cities, but, eventually, to solve the issue diplomatically. Just a shame that Kefka has to stab everyone in the back to become the God of Magic.
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Back from the Brink / int_8818f28f	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine starts with planet Graia overrun by Orks, who prevent reinforcements from coming in thanks to air superiority and control of a surface-to-orbit weapon. The first things the player does are crashing their airship and blowing up their gun, opening the way for Imperial Guard reinforcements.
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Back from the Brink / int_8d1f3bc7	comment	The original starts with launching the eponymous team up against Andross' forces attacking Corneria, then sends them off to Venom, liberating planets and blowing up armadas as they go.
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Back from the Brink / int_8eaee3d9	comment	Eiyuu Senki: The World Conquest starts off with the main heroine's city not only on the verge of bankruptcy, but she herself is nearly killed in a bandit attack after suffering from a lost battle. The hero's arrival and subsequent actions turn everything around.
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Back from the Brink / int_9058ad7e	comment	In The Terminator: This is how Kyle Reese narrates the war between humans and machines: When asked why Skynet went through all of the trouble of time travel instead of focusing on killing Connor in the future, Reese explains that they had in fact completely turned it around: "Skynet's defense grid was smashed. We'd won. Taking out Connor then would have made no difference."
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Back from the Brink / int_909b004d	comment	The Decepticons also get this in The Transformers (IDW). After their defeat at the end of AHM they are left stranded on a resource lacking asteroid, with Megatron barely alive, high command either being mysterious or ineffective, and cannibalizing each other to survive. Megatron's spotlight shows his triumphant return and rallying of his soldiers, saying that they are conqurers and shouldn't be in this shabby state. His monologue at the end clinches it.
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Back from the Brink / int_985ad25d	comment	In the end of Dragon Ball Super, Frieza's empire has gone from being functionally dead to a rising threat again, as Frieza himself is taking steps to re-build his empire.
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Back from the Brink / int_98da2344	comment	In the same vein as above, Air Force Delta Strike starts out with one of these missions.
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Back from the Brink / int_9bb149b3	comment	Unlikely but possible for a player in Diplomacy if they get whittled down to one or two units but manage to return and achieve a draw as an equal, or even better come back to win outright.
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Back from the Brink / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: In several instances throughout the series, faction questlines play out in such a way that the player brings them back from the brink, often after said faction fell since the previous game in the series. In-universe, this is the case for the Dunmeri Great House Redoran. House Redoran was almost completely destroyed during the Oblivion Crisis after they rallied to defend against the invading Daedra. Skyrim's Dragonborn reveals that Redoran has recovered quite well in the 200 years that followed, organizing most of the relief efforts following the Red Year and raising a standing army to fight back against the Argonian invasion. Now, they're the current leaders of the Dunmer Council and their city of Blacklight has become the capital of Dunmer controlled Morrowind following the Argonian sacking of Mournhold.
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Back from the Brink / int_a3402a3	comment	Total Annihilation uses this with its campaign for both sides: play Core, and your first mission to save your last remaining Commander (which is, incidentally, deactivated) from being found by Arm scouts on the Core homeworld, the last planet Core can stake at least a bit of claim to. Play Arm, and you have to defend your last Galactic Gate on their homeworld from the invading Core who have taken over everywhere else. In other words, which side is losing and which side is winning depends entirely on which side you choose to play as. There's some reason behind this, since the game's nanomachine-based construction enables both sides to fart out military-industrial complexes, making strategy much more vital than resources. In essence, both sides are fighting the war with rather chunky Gray Goo: Unless you destroy every single builder unit, the enemy can regain it's strength at an exponential rate. Hence the name, Total Annihilation. No other type of victory will do.
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Back from the Brink / int_a5a1e53d	comment	Enemy Territory: Quake Wars features the human fight against the Strogg on Earth.
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Back from the Brink / int_a68c19b8	comment	In the second half of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, the player takes control of Seliph and a ragtag band of rebels, starting in an obscure corner of an entire continent that the villain took over during the first half of the game.
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Back from the Brink / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: In Final Fantasy VI: The Returners have a stronghold of sorts in the mountains east of Figaro—however, it's about the time that you start the game that the Empire starts occupying cities to build their own power, but also to try and stamp out the Returners. This is a slight aversion of the trope, as your objective as the player is not to win back control of the cities, but, eventually, to solve the issue diplomatically. Just a shame that Kefka has to stab everyone in the back to become the God of Magic. Final Fantasy III does this a lot, first with saving the last crystal from the forces of darkness and then bringing back stability to the world.
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Back from the Brink / int_aabf6d1d	comment	You start Darkest Dungeon with two low-level nobodies, a caretaker, and a hamlet that's virtually ruined. Over the course of the game you build it up into a thriving settlement, especially if you have the "Crimson Court" DLC (which lets you construct new buildings, while the base game is focused on repairing and enlarging the ones you already have). It can also happen within the game itself, where the heroes are fighting a losing battle, stress is piling up, resolves are tested, and suddenly a character reaches a Virtue and single-handedly saves the day.
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Back from the Brink / int_ae050a9f	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: By the time Link awakens in the future era, five of the six temples have succumbed under Ganondorf's influence, outmatching the Sages who attempted to protect them, and as a result all parts of Hyrule have remained in a dire state in one way or another. The only temple that is left intact from the Gerudo king's influence (and therefore has its Sage safe) is the Temple of Time (even then, the Market is still overrun by ReDeads and the nearby Lon Lon Ranch is now under Ingo's control), whose sage (Rauru) entrusts Link the mission to restore Hyrule to its former glory and eventually confront his deadliest enemy.
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Back from the Brink / int_af60702d	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The previous legendary hero was slain long ago, Ganon's forces have ravaged Hyrule, the Triforce is shattered, and all that remains of the kingdom are a few random old people hiding in caves. And then Link appears to revert gradually the situation and eventually defeat Ganon and his army.
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Back from the Brink / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Four seasons after the loss of their ancestral home of Winterfell and three seasons after the events of the Red Wedding led to the deaths of everyone in the family barring Arya, Sansa, Bran, Rickon (who dies in the battle to retake Winterfell) and Jon Snow, the end of Season 6 sees House Stark finally back in the game as Sansa and resurrected Jon Snow rally various allies into destroying the Boltons and retaking Winterfell. "You Starks are hard to kill", indeed. After a crushing defeat that leaves him low on men, material, money, and suffering from depression, Stannis returns in fine form at the end of Season 4, thanks to a loan from the Iron Bank and a rousing victory that gives his forces a much-needed morale boost and a new base to renew his campaign for the throne.
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Back from the Brink / int_bb99f857	comment	Every game in the Naval Ops series opens with the player's faction on the ropes. And yet they never have to really worry about fuel and ammunition supplies.
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Back from the Brink / int_bcadd7cb	comment	In the background information for the 8th Edition of Warhammer 40,000, the dissemination of the Primaris Space Marines saved a number of heavily depleted Adeptus Astartes Chapters from extinction. The Black Consuls, the Crimson Fists and the Scythes of the Emperor have all been brought back to almost full strength by the addition of Primaris Marines to their rosters.
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Back from the Brink / int_be492827	comment	Metroid Prime 2: Echoes: Once you start reading the Luminoth Lore, you begin to realize just how close to complete destabilization the Ing brought Aether before you grabbed up that Energy Transfer Module; specifically, the Ing were two rooms away from destroying the planet when you chanced upon them.
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Back from the Brink / int_bee7440	comment	Drakengard: The main reason the Union comes back from the brink of destruction despite your character having been around the whole time and whooping ass is that he's just gained the allegiance of a dragon. The second level which you play involves killing the entire besieging army with the dragon. Not content to be one-upped, The Empire deploys some interesting Schizo Tech during a later climactic battle, and when even that fails, just screws everyone over. The game starts with both player characters (Caim and the aforementioned dragon) being mortally wounded, forcing them to forge a magic "pact" with each other. This has the effect of completely healing them, allowing them to turn the battle.
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Back from the Brink / int_c6c80a57	comment	In Creeper World humanity has been reduced to a single city which is forced to constantly flee from planet to planet to escape the advancing Creeper substance. It's not until the final level that humanity actually finds a way to fight back.
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Back from the Brink / int_c7aa3c5c	comment	Doom II: Hell on Earth has the combined forces of humanity making one last counter-offensive to retake the Starport and evacuate Earth. Every last one of them is annihilated besides the protagonist, who must then retake the Starport himself and save the day.
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Back from the Brink / int_c8c98633	comment	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 - the first Allied mission. And in Yuri's Revenge the whole world has been enslaved by Yuri's Psychic Dominators, and your only hope is to use the Allied time machine to go back in the past and prevent it from happening.
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Back from the Brink / int_c8c98634	comment	Shockingly enough, used in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. Given the Mêlée à Trois nature of World War III in this setting, two of the campaigns begin with the player heroically throwing back the nearly-successful invasion of Britain/St. Petersburg; the Imperial campaign features one later where, despite winning the war against the USSR, the Empire is nearly destroyed by a surprise Allied counterattack. It also plays in gameplay a few times: in Allied Mission 7, the player begins with a large base, which is promptly annihilated by a triple Psionic Decimator strike and must rebuild quickly to finish off the Imperial defenders; meanwhile in Imperial Mission 9, Zelinsky's last defense obliterates the entire mission area except a few of your troops and a few of his, and it's up to you to finish the mission with the handful of survivors. Uprising's mini-campaigns feature this a few times as well; since the Empire and the Soviet Union lost the war in Red Alert 3, their armies are weakened at the beginning of the campaign, leading to some guerrilla-style tactics involving stolen or improvised equipment. Also, in Allied Mission 2, your base is disabled by a Tech Inhibitor... but since you have Special Agent Tanya on your side, it's not really that big of a deal.
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Back from the Brink / int_c96cfe29	comment	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: By the time you reach the first dungeon, the king has been killed, the majority of Hyrule's soldiers have been brainwashed to serve his murderer, and the villain is preparing to sacrifice Zelda as the final maiden to break the seal on the Dark World so its forces can invade Hyrule, your uncle already heavily injured trying to stop them. And then Link gets involved.
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Back from the Brink / int_d3381e70	comment	A villainous example in Captain America: The Winter Soldier with HYDRA. After the defeat of Red Skull, HYDRA was thought to be completely finished. However, his seemingly less harmful assistant was recruited into SHIELD as part of Operation Paperclip, and from day one began planting the seeds for HYDRA's rebirth inside of SHIELD itself. By the modern day, SHIELD is so thoroughly compromised, that HYDRA comes closer to completing plan than just about any other villains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Captain America is forced to destroy SHIELD completely to end the threat. "Cut off one head, two more shall take its place", indeed.
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Back from the Brink / int_d4e47577	comment	Doom³ puts you in the shoes of a marine who is transferred to Mars for reasons unknown. Everybody on Mars is quickly wiped out in an ensuing demonic invasion (much like the first game) besides a handful of marine teams (Who quickly get taken out in a cutscene) and the other 3 main characters. The player is basically responsible for stopping the invasion.
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Back from the Brink / int_d5166b44	comment	Justified in Halo 3; humanity's in the worst shape it's ever been, but they're able to win because the Covenant has already fallen into civil war, with one side allying with the humans and providing them vital support.
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Back from the Brink / int_d56cafaf	comment	Power Rangers RPM starts as humanity has been reduced to a single sealed city by killer robots, and the robots keep getting through the walls. They win in the season finale and start recolonizing the planet (or do they?), although the global ecosystem is shot to hell (but implied to be recovering).
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Back from the Brink / int_d59e2ca4	comment	Any Quake game except the third (with even more of an Excuse Plot than the others) is like this. Quake begins with everyone in the base but the protagonist dead. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars features the human fight against the Strogg on Earth. In Quake II, humanity's managed to fight back desperately against the Strogg, and launch a counter-offensive; but Bitterman (the PC), is the only space marine who survives past the intro. Quake IV. In the beginning, you are separated from the main Earth forces. When you join them mid-game, however, it gets only more difficult.
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Back from the Brink / int_d5e9cf36	comment	XCOM 2: The XCOM resistance doesn't think they're this trope, as they'd been patiently building up for twenty years until they could steal a warship and rescue their commander from captivity. Unbeknownst to them, the Advent Administraton has been ignoring them because they were less than a year away from achieving their ultimate plans and creating the ultimate weapon, an Ethereal-Human Hybrid species on par with superheroes, and then sabotaging all of their minions on Earth, humans and aliens alike. If XCOM had waited one more year in their weakened situation, they wouldn't get the chance to defend their planet because it would either be ruled by an insane science project or killed off completely.
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Back from the Brink / int_da92c130	comment	In Erfworld: Wanda mentions early on that their side used to hold eleven cities, and at the beginning of the story, they only have their capital. Which is what gets them desperate enough to summon Parson. Faq has been effectively eliminated at least twice, both times only recovering because a third party helped the remaining units reclaim their cities.
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Back from the Brink / int_dcb78c8c	comment	Resistance 3 starts off with 90% of Earth's population either killed or converted by the Chimera. It's the player's job to ensure that they don't wipe out the remaining 10% with their terraforming plans.
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Back from the Brink / int_de276825	comment	Quake begins with everyone in the base but the protagonist dead.
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Back from the Brink / int_e04f934e	comment	In Part II of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, while the Azure Moon, Verdant Wind, and Silver Snow routes play this trope straight, Crimson Flower puts a unique spin on it. This time, the shoe is on the other foot; you're the empire out to crush the last remnants of the old order so you can usher in a new age of meritocracy and create a world where anyone can rise to the top.
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Back from the Brink / int_e32a2c32	comment	In the aftermath of House of M, the Scarlet Witch had all but eradicated the mutant populace, down to somewhere around 200 (it varies Depending on the Writer). At the end of Avengers vs. X-Men, Hope and the Scarlet Witch destroy the Phoenix Force, restoring the mutant populace once more... though, not the way it was before.
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Back from the Brink / int_e5d5d23c	comment	The first Doom has the protagonist fighting off a demonic invasion after all his comrades on the Phobos base are wiped out.
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Back from the Brink / int_e5da0fb3	comment	Myth: The first game starts out with only a single major city of The Light still standing through forty years of war. After discovering a powerful magic artifact which allows several victories to be scored, pushing back the torrential hordes of darkness with great difficulty, the magical coup that allowed them turns on you and causes a civil war amongst The Light's already dwindling ranks. Upon regrouping, a desperate plan is concocted in which almost all of your remaining allies are implied to have purposely sacrificed themselves to provide a distraction, allowing you to capture the Big Bad. When you finally destroy him, the ending Cut Scene indicates that you and your entire squad were wiped out in the resulting explosion. Myth 2 retcons it: one guy lived. It wasn't you (or rather the narrator, since you aren't actually a character). He did a decent job rebuilding, too.
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Back from the Brink / int_e5feb1e	comment	This is practically a staple of the Ace Attorney series. Your cases typically begin with the deck stacked against your client (the situation being anywhere between "very bad" and "near-guaranteed conviction"), and while Phoenix Wright and his understudies do fantastic jobs of holding the prosecution at bay and helping their clients, there's very often a point where the defense is on the very brink of losing the case due to being unable to completely prove their assertions (which would clear their client completely). Cue the iconic Turnabout Moment, when the defense makes an incredible comeback that turns the entire case upside down, steamrolling over all counterarguments and coverups, and finally causing the real culprit to have their Villainous Breakdown. Phoenix Wright has made such a history of this for himself that he's earned titles for it: The Turnabout Terror and The Comeback King or King of Turnabouts.
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Back from the Brink / int_e6c59cc4	comment	In Quake II, humanity's managed to fight back desperately against the Strogg, and launch a counter-offensive; but Bitterman (the PC), is the only space marine who survives past the intro.
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Back from the Brink / int_e6c59cd1	comment	Quake IV. In the beginning, you are separated from the main Earth forces. When you join them mid-game, however, it gets only more difficult.
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Back from the Brink / int_e9c7b01b	comment	The beginning of Dissidia Final Fantasy informs you that the forces of Cosmos, goddess of harmony, have lost the war with Chaos, god of discord, with the ten playable heroes being Cosmos's last soldiers. This thematic element is a major mechanic in the gameplay as well: the Cosmos Judgment ruleset allows a filled Ex Gauge when HP is drastically low and opponent's is very high and can restore a losing character's summons, with numerous other abilities, accessories, the auto versions of many summons, and more similarly kicking in only when the fighter is at a disadvantage. Contrast the Chaos Judgment rules, which avert this by punishing players who aren't on the brink for not pushing it for all they're worth.
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Back from the Brink / int_e9cb2780	comment	Gears of War starts off with Marcus Fenix the player character getting out of prison because The Cog is just that desperate for soldiers. The locusts have pushed the humans back to their last city.
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Back from the Brink / int_f3cbb86a	comment	By the final act of BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm, Arianna has nearly succeeded in her goal of wiping out the virtual world. All that’s left are a few scraps of land floating in a digital void. When the heroes finally make it past her Firewall, they’re not even sure if it’s possible to undo the damage that’s been done. Thankfully, it is.
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Back from the Brink / int_f8acc9ea	comment	Control: At the start of the game, the Bureau of Control has lost the majority of its employees, the Oldest House is under lockdown, and the survivors are under siege by both the Hiss as well as Molded. Several of its artifacts and dangerous foes have also escaped containment. Jesse manages to single-handedly stop all of these threats and reorganize the survivors under her command.
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Back from the Brink / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. The player starts with the control of Daein's Dawn Brigade, and in the only run the country really is restored; however, in Part III, when you play part their side part (as pawn to The Empire) their opponents', they're steadfastly losing, and their Last Stand ends as a dramatic defeat. It's also averted with the enemy country, Crimea; Crimea was the attacker in the conflict with The Empire, and was not losing in any sense of the word. It's played straight if you think of Crimea's queen, though, who in Part II was under fierce criticism and had faced a rebellion in her own country, and whose position in Part III is much more established.
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Back from the Brink / int_fb0b20f2	comment	Supreme Commander: The game oddly has the reverse of this. Your side is about to win. The 'enemies' are themselves making their final desperate attempt to fight Back From the Brink and the single player campaign simply has you... delay them a bit. More dramatic than it sounds... both enemy factions make very, very good final and desperate attempts: whichever side you play, the final battle takes place on Earth with the clock on the planet-killing Wave-Motion Gun ticking. Specifically, the Aeon are about to win in all three campaigns. The UEF campaign has you trying to get said weapon built in time, while the Cybran campaign is about shutting down interstellar travel to play for time. In the Aeon campaign you have to keep an omnicidal splinter group of the Aeon from being the ones to finish the conquest, and then do it yourself. Played straight in the expansion, Forged Alliance: The Coalition, the titular "forged alliance", is fighting off an alien invasion, and losing... badly. The briefing for the first mission states that the enemy has somehow found your last major (secret) stronghold, and as the mission begins, they start bombing the base you will get control over, and they just barely managed to get your ACU through the base's Quantum Gate, literally seconds before the Gate gets destroyed.
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Back from the Brink / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers: The Transformers: Dark Cybertron: The Simanzi Battle/Massacre was one for the Autobots, Megatron had pushed his forces, conquered most of the planet and halved the population. It rained corrosives, and the skies were the color of the Decepticon emblem. How the Autobot's recovered has not been stated. The Decepticons also get this in The Transformers (IDW). After their defeat at the end of AHM they are left stranded on a resource lacking asteroid, with Megatron barely alive, high command either being mysterious or ineffective, and cannibalizing each other to survive. Megatron's spotlight shows his triumphant return and rallying of his soldiers, saying that they are conqurers and shouldn't be in this shabby state. His monologue at the end clinches it.
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Back from the Brink / int_fe85bfc8	comment	Super Smash Bros.: Super Smash Bros. Brawl: In Subspace Emissary, Tabuu knocks out all of fighters appearing before him with one-shot of his Off Waves attack. Luckily, King Dedede had stashed away the trophies of Kirby, Luigi, and Ness with timed release revival brooches, allowing them to go and revive everyone. Additionally, when Tabuu tries the attack again, his wings are destroyed by Sonic, forcing him to fight on even terms. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: In World of Light, Galeem does a World-Wrecking Wave, which Kirby is only able to survive by pushing his Warp Star to its absolute limit, leaving him the only one able to fight back.
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Back from the Brink / int_ff8d0a13	comment	Mahu: In "Crownless Eagle", the Polish Commonwealth is surrounded by powerful foes and plagued by corruption and mismanagement. The king starts a war the nation cannot hope to win, a situation not helped by the small fact that the realm's "noble democracy" is near-impossible to rule. That, coupled with taxes the common people can barely pay, are the reasons why soon a Revolution happens and things start to change with the creation of the Commonwealth Republic.
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The Fall of the Roman Empire / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Terminator / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
War for the Planet of the Apes / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Ace Attorney (Franchise) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Kruggsmash (Lets Play) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
SlimKirby (Lets Play) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
slowbeef (Lets Play) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Stellaris Invicta (Lets Play) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Hohenzollern Empire (Lets Play) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Lone Wolf / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
1983: Doomsday / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Sixth Column / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Alexiad / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Anglo/American â€“ Nazi War / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Death of Russia / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Legacy of the Glorious / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Lost Fleet / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Saxon Stories / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Sun Eater / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Warhammer: Time of Legends / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
ContrastSoul	seeAlso	Back from the Brink
LastStarfighter	seeAlso	Back from the Brink
Prussia	seeAlso	Back from the Brink
The Perks of Working in the Black Magic Industry (Manga) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Though Young People Recoil From Entering the Black Magic Industry (Manga) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
For The Tyrants Fear Your Might (Roleplay) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Power Rangers RPM / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Last Kingdom / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Chronopia (Tabletop Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
GURPS Reign of Steel (Tabletop Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Stars Are Fire (Tabletop Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition (Tabletop Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
AI War: Fleet Command (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
A Legionary's Life (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Ace Combat (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Ace Combat Infinity (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
After the End: A Post-Apocalyptic America (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Airforce Delta (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Anbennar (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Arc the Lad (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Assassin's Creed III (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Berwick Saga (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Beyond Oasis (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Black & White (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Black★Rock Shooter (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Command & Conquer: Generals (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
ContrastSoul	seeAlso	Back from the Brink
Control (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Crusader Kings II: Game of Thrones Mod (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Darkest Dungeon (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Doom (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Doom II (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Eiyuu Senki: The World Conquest (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Europa Universalis (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
FTL: Faster Than Light (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Final Fantasy VI (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
FreeSpace (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
FuryÂ³ (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Homefront: The Revolution (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Homeworld (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
I of the Dragon (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Invisible, Inc. (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
KAIMA (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Medieval II: Total War (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Mental Omega (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Myth (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Nectaris (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
New Era - Old World (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Old World Blues (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Patapon (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Path of Exile (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Quake IV (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Resistance (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Rome: Total War (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
7th Dragon (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Shadow Empire (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Shin Gihren's Greed (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Space Rangers (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Star Fox: Assault (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Star Wars: Battlefront II (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
StarCraft (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Starlancer (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Strider (2014) (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Super Robot Wars Destiny (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Tamriel Rebuilt (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Godfather (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Legend of Zelda (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The New Order: Last Days of Europe (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Ninja Warriors (1994) (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Third Odyssey (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Thousand-Week Reich (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Titanfall (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Total War: Attila (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Victoria: An Empire Under The Sun (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Yakuza 0 (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Yakuza 5 (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Sonic Forces (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Hiiro no Kakera (Visual Novel) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Gauche Alternate Future Of Europe (Web Animation) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Jelle's Marble Runs (Web Video) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Magic Gum Civilization Experiments (Web Video) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Masako X - Dragon Ball What-If (Web Video) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Stellaris Invicta (Web Video) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
After Zero (Webcomic) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
The Descended (Webcomic) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Beast Machines / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Summer Wars / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink

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